Fact Sheets: Impressionism

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These links take you to PDFs with information about key Impressionist artworks in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection. Each fact sheet is specifically written for teachers.

A painitng of a row of poplar trees, waving to and fro from the foreground to the background. They are surrounded by a clear blue sky. There is a thin line of green grass at the bottom of the painting.

 

Claude Monet, Poplars

 

 

 

Springtime by Claude Monet, painted in 1886

 

 Claude Monet, Springtime

 

 

A painting of a flooded town; with punt-like boats in the foreground, with trees lining the streets and buildings lining a street in the back right. A few sets of couple stand throughout the area.

 

Alfred Sisley, Flood at Port-Marly

 

 

A painting of people lining the street, next to the empty road. In the foreground, at the bottom right, a woman in a navy hat faces the road. People bustle around in the background.

 

 

Pierre-Auguste_Renoir, La Place_Clichy

Paul Cézanne, Uncle Dominique

Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte

An unfinished painting of two women, in blue and grey, sitting at a table. One looks at her hands, the other looks at the woman looking down. They are sitting on chairs, and there are pink marks on the table, which look a little like flowers.

 

Edgar Degas,  At_the_café

 

 

 

A painting of a snowy scene of fields and leafless trees in the foreground, and with a village and a church in the background.

 

Camille Pissarro,_Snowy_Landscape

 

 

A snowy scene of a house and some trees painted by Camille Pissarro

 

Camille Pissarro,_Piette’s_House at Montfoucault